The proper treatment of language acquisition and change in a population setting

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 10124-10129

  Niyogi, Partha ^a   Berwick, Robert C ^b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical system model; Iterated learning; Learnability; Phase transitions; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POPULATION;

EID: 67649872605     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903993106     Document Type: Article

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